Organissimo will bring music to your ears with their wide vari­ety of music styles.

They will play at the Big Rapids band shell on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m.

There will be free admis­sion for all and Pepper’s Café will have a small con­ces­sion stand for those in need of food or drinks.

All dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple enjoy Organissimo’s music. Their Web site says; “from young and old, black and white, hip­pies to cor­po­rate pro­fes­sion­als, their music skirts over fences and sat­is­fies a diverse range of tastes.”

Organissimo, accord­ing to their web site organ​is​simo​.org, incor­po­rates ele­ments of funk, gospel, blues, pro­gres­sive rock, and fusion into a solid foun­da­tion of jazz after focus­ing mainly on orig­i­nal and tra­di­tional organ-based trio material.

“An American cul­tural critic, Elvis Mitchell, wrote after wit­ness­ing a show at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge [in Detroit], ‘The group’s toned, mus­cu­lar play­ing keeps the crowd rapt, a con­di­tion notice­able by the fact that almost no one is talk­ing,’” as stated on their web site.

According to their web site, Organissimo formed in late 2000. Guitarist, Joe Gloss, and organ­ist, Jim Alfredson, met at Michigan State University in the late 90s and “rec­og­nized a rare musi­cal chem­istry” and ini­ti­ated the search to find drum­mer, Randy Marsh.

This vibrant band has been all over the coun­try and parts of the world: Michigan to Philadelphia, Chicago to Indianapolis, and also to Israel for the 2007 Tel-Aviv Jazz Festival.

Organissimo has won many awards for their albums includ­ing the WYCE Jammy award for Best Jazz Album for their debut CD “Waiting for the Boogaloo Sisters…”

“Combine Alfredson’s knack for choos­ing just the right color and tone in any given com­po­si­tion with his col­leagues’ abil­ity to match his ges­tures, and you have one of the most promis­ing organ trios in jazz,” said in the Chicago Tribune.

For more infor­ma­tion on the band, visit organ​is​simo​.org. For more infor­ma­tion on the con­cert, con­tact 231−592−4036.